Marty wrote in
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Larry, at what bit rate do you encode your MP3s?



Whatever bit rate they're in when I download them from
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.(many genres here) off usenet. Tonight I'm
stripping alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.jazz for a while.

Most are 128Kbps, but sometimes they go crazy with variable bit rates far
above that. As the bit rate for the CDs was 44.1K to begin with, it's all
over kill above 64Kbps, anyways. Human ears aren't near that good....no
matter what the hypers say. Sceptics only need see an audiologist to get
their own personal bandwidth tests to confirm it....

FLAC, while really cool, is crazy.